Visual Arts

Broke Denverites can find plenty of things to do on the cheap from November 16 to 19. Here are ten of the best events.

Chris Coleman, artistic director for Portland Center Stage for the past seventeen years, has been hired to lead the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company.

Identical twin brothers whose creative paths converge like voices in perfect harmony, Charly Fasano and Vincent Cheap Fasano delve, together and apart, into a multidisciplinary palette of fine art, film, poetry, spoken word and music with Beat roots, filtered by a punk attitude and updated for the twenty-first century.

Travel through Colorado with AJ Keil, admire contemporary art and photography, pick up a paintbrush and help paint a mural or get a head start on your holiday shopping: It’s all there for the taking—and viewing—in Denver galleries and right on the street.

Ania Gola-Kumor is one of Colorado’s best abstract painters, but she is inexplicably also one of the most underappreciated. Her latest efforts are on view in Moving Paint II: Ania Gola-Kumor, a handsome and tight solo now at the Sandra Phillips Gallery.

Lots of Denver-area markets in November are ready to ease you into the business of choosing gifts, well before the holiday rush, with fresh merchandise from upper-echelon artists and makers. Hop to it! These ten markets will help you on your way.

Things are popping in Denver’s art scene this week, as Denver Arts Week continues and new fall shows hit the galleries. Put on your jackets and come out into the cold for these November art events.

JonBenet’s Tricycle, the debut film from local renaissance-man Andrew Novick, has its world premiere this weekend at the Denver Film Festival.

An unusual fine-art venue just opened at 1412 Wazee Street; Abend, Gallery 1261 and the new K Contemporary have joined forces in a co-op of galleries.

Basalt’s nonprofit cultural center Art Base has created a project in which youth from the town’s Latino immigrant community create their own dream homes through art.

With Las (H)adas at the Museo de las Americas, Maruca Salazar has given Latina artists the attention they’ve always deserved.

If you’re new to Denver, you don’t want to miss these traditional fall/winter events. If you’ve been around a while, take a second (or third, or fourth) look; some things just get better with age.

Svper Ordinary partners Bryan Cavanaugh, Tran Wills and Josh Wills officially closed the book on Svper Ordinary on November 6, but not without a real sense of accomplishment. “We really did take it to another level as an art/design retail concept,” Tran notes. “We did a lot in those four years, promoting different makers and artists. For a lot of them, those were their first shows.”

These five free events should light up the workweek beginning November 6, until the next weekend brightens things up.

Just in time to commence Denver Arts Week, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts will be hosting the world’s largest traveling hip-hop festival, Breakin’ Convention, the last stop on the renowned production’s United States tour.

The colder months bring ample opportunities in to enjoy the best of our art galleries, museums and exhibitions. The 2017 to 2018 season is no exception.

November is here, giving us plenty of reasons to get dressed up and get out of the house, everything from fashion shows to From fashion shows to trunk shows, here are the top eight fashion events to do in Denver this November. Massif Fashion Week Through Sunday, November 5 Massif…

Denver Arts Week opened with an awkward press conference where Mayor Michael Hancock tried to learn hip-hop dance moves from French dancer Salah.

It’s not just any First Friday — it’s Denver Arts Week’s Know Your Arts First Friday. Make the rounds and see work by artists working both underground and aboveground all over the Denver metro.

Chaesdegango was a fixture on the Denver art scene in the ’80s. Now the artist, whose real name is Ron Chidester, has a show opening November 5 at West Side Books.

The Denver Art Museum’s North Building — more commonly known as the Ponti building, in honor of its chief designer, Gio Ponti — will shut down on November 19 and remain closed for the next three years. The exhibit Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon takes a look at the Ponti’s past and future.

Día de los Muertos is one of the loveliest holidays, when Mexicans around the world build altars to honor the dead and leave them ofrendas (offerings) of food and candy to sustain them on their post-mortem journey.